With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Adequacy is sufficient.

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

The entire partying lifestyle was superficial in my experience, and most of my friendships were as deep as a shot glass and as short-lived as a pack of cigarettes.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.

Clarity (always) trumps persuasion

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.